Senior Advocate,Delhi HC/SCI. Civil Commercial & Constitutional litigator. Author of #1 India that is Bharat, & #2 India, Bharat and Pakistan (Bloomsbury).
1. By the Grace of the Gods, I am happy to announce that the second book of the Bharat Trilogy "India, Bharat and Pakistan: The Constitutional Journey of a Sandwiched Civilisation", published by Bloomsbury India, is now available for pre orders (advance orders) on Amazon.
We are delighted to announce the publication of #IndiaBharatAndPakistan by @jsaideepak. It takes the discussion forward from its bestselling predecessor, #IndiaThatisBharat, & explores the influence of European & Middle Eastern colonialities on Bharat's constitutional thought.
When I first came to India, the space industry was closed to private players.
The most well-known "startup" at that time was TeamIndus. Skyroot didn't exist.
A year later, in 2018, Skyroot was founded. Private companies in India couldn't launch rockets yet, but Pawan and Bharath forged ahead regardless, optimistic that liberalisation would happen someday.
Then, in 2020, it did. Indian companies were finally free to compete with American, Russian, European, and Chinese startups. They could build their own launch vehicles. And satellites. At an undisclosed location in the United States, Elon swallowed hard.
I was publishing videos about Indian companies on YouTube at this point. I remember thinking, "Making content about these spacetech developments is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
Now, ~6 years later, Skyroot has gifted India with the biggest white pill of all time. While the world watched, a team of ~1,000+ Indian optimists (with an average age of 28) flawlessly executed an orbital rocket launch.
No private space company IN THE WORLD has ever done this on their first try. As I write this, I have goosebumps. I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to witness this firsthand. I also feel inspired by the resilience, ingenuity, and wherewithal of the entire Skyroot team.
The next chapter of India's space journey has officially begun.
Good to know that this specific drama isn’t limited to India. I wonder why Christian priests or “apostles” pay people to convulse like they’ve been electrocuted, though. None of them can think of some other skit to perform?
Ridiculous that this Congress CM has to keep explaining his temple visit like this.
This is the brain rot secularism that has destroyed many kinds in the country over several decades.
Why is there an expectation that public representatives should give up their religious affiliation or do this in stealth mode like they are doing some crime?
Hindus : There are many personal Gods that are different in the vyavahārika (conventional) plane but on the paramārtha (ultimate) plane, they are all manifestations of one Brahman, the all pervading unitary consciousness.
@IndoKatholic : That is ridiculous.
St Augustine : There is 1 God but in three different persons.
Father is God
Son is God
Holy Spirit is God
Father is not the Son
Son is not the Spirit
The Spirit is not the Father
There is only one God
This is the incomprehensible mystery of the Holy Trinity.
@IndoKatholic : Wow saar, super theology saar , you are our churchfather saar, based saar. Please pray for me saar
After the Ayodhya betrayal, the bureaucracy did exactly what you'd expect: gaslit Hindus, celebrated secularists and proposed MORE government control over temples, because that's worked SO well in other temples!
In old Poona, Brahmin boys after their thread ceremony would go house to house collecting alms in a cloth zoli and brass pot.
They called out in Sanskrit: “Bhavati bhikshām dehi” (Mother, give me alms). This was *Madhukari* — literally “the work of the honey-bee.”
A Vedic tradition that kept the flame of learning alive through humility and self-effort. Here's a fascinating 1911 account of how these young Brahmacharis sustained themselves while studying.
https://t.co/PRJZmKNx4d
Reupping this.
An 800+ tweet long thread summarising confrontations in the battle of Kurukshetra.
Could do this only because I had Dr. Bibek Debroy's translation of Mahabharata with me. Hurts to see mindless dissing of the scholar of his stature happening in the hands of semi illiterates here.
If you have the patience to go through the 6000 page translation, you would know better.
Wonder why today's rural Punjab is mostly Sikh dominated? Because all Hindus were purged by Khalistanis from Punjab villages, no different than Pakistan. 30,000+ is only the recorded figure of the time when militancy was at its peak.
Ankit Sharma’s neighbour told me how a Muslim crowd entered into space and started shouting - Hindu hai, maaro
He barely escaped the same fate as Sharma
Every video I recorded while documenting the Delhi 2020 riots, I gave to agencies probing it, including this
The heavily crowded building on the left belongs to @AamAadmiParty leader Tahir Hussain
This is the tallest building in the area where Ankit Sharma lived
Muslim crowds protesting CAA Act killed Constable Ratan Lal in same area on 24 Feb 2020. Then on 25 and 26 Feb, thet used this building to threw bricks, stones, petrol bombs all day from here at Hindu colonies
The crowd gathered at its foot dragged Ankit Sharma inside the building, lynched and threw the body in the adjoining drain
Tahir Hussain actively facilitated this and instigated his co-religionists to kill Hindus
Hussain tried to defend himself by claiming on video - widely amplified by
The Wire and Newslaundry - that his building had been hijacked and he had no role
Court has rejected that, found Tahir Hussain guilty and convicted him for murder, inciting hate
This was the crowd on Tahir Hussain’s building terrace on 25 Feb 2020
Ankit Sharma went missing on evening of 25 Feb
His heavily mutilated body was fished out the next day from a clogged drain on the right side of Hussain’s building
I visited the site the same day - locals were sure that he had been kidnapped and dragged inside this building and lynched
Tahir Hussain and four others have now been convicted of murdering him “because he was Hindu”
I feel vindicated. OpIndia and our coverage has prevailed. A battle fought for 6 years.
It was in July 2020 that I had analyzed the chargesheet against Tahir Hussain. The CS, including his disclosure statement, laid bare the sinister plot behind the anti-Hindu riots. He admitted not only how he wanted to kill “Kafirs” but how he created a fake alibi to convince police he was the victim. It was this alibi that was peddled shamelessly by @zoo_bear and @khanumarfa. That he made multiple PCR calls to get “help” since he was the victim of the riot. Hussain admitted that this was a ruse, while he gheraod the police, cutting them off from the location where he and his men were murdering Ankit Sharma and other Hindus.
https://t.co/E0yZRDwxsc
Ankit Sharma’s body was recovered from the Chand Bagh drain on 26th February 2020. He was stabbed so many times that his intestines lay out of his body.
On the 27th, @sardesairajdeep was defending Hussain.
Today, 6 years later, Tahir has been convicted of the murder.
Deaths of thousands of Hindus by hands of Sikh terrorists can't be washed out by saying that both communities suffered. Hindus had no part to play in the violence.
Sikhs started it, killed thousands of Sikhs and Hindus in the process. "Both suffered" only because of Sikh religious and regional supremacist ideology which is still as toxic as ever. It is like saying both Nazis and European minorities suffered due to war started by Nazis.
Everyone who tries to justify kahlistanis, bhindiwala and sympathisers, whether it be in gobarment, forces, friend & family circles is a terrorist himself and should be treated as such.
Corruption & mismanagement of temples is blamed on convenient targets like greedy pujaris, lack of audits, etc. In this video, I draw attention to the need for a totally new governance regime consisting of modern institutions serving the cosmic vision of the Agamas.